The following states and territories rose in trend terms in April 2014: New South Wales (0.7%), Victoria (0.5%), Queensland (0.2%), Tasmania (0.3%) and the Northern Territory (0.4%). Western Australia (-0.2%), the Australian Capital Territory (-0.7%) and South Australia (-0.1%) fell in trend terms in April 2014.

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4 September 2014

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CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the April 2014 reference month and updated consumer sales estimates for the March 2014 quarter. These estimates are provided and explained within the appendix section of this publication.

REVISIONS

There are no revisions to the original estimates. Revisions to seasonally adjusted estimates are due to the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors.

TIME SERIES DATA

Data available from the Downloads tab of this issue on the ABS website include longer time series of tables in this publication, the quarterly chain volume measures and the following additional current price monthly series:

Retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms

Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by six industry groups in original terms

Retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sector, by state in original terms